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Nomi Claire Lazar
Nomi Claire Lazar (born 1975) is Professor of Political Theory in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa in Canada. She is an elected member of the University of Ottawa Governing Board and served for three years as Associate Dean of Faculty at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. As a scholar she is chiefly known for her pluralist theory of emergency powers, developed in the book States of Emergency in Liberal Democracies, and for the theories of political legitimacy and temporal rhetoric developed in Out of Joint: Power, Crisis, and the Rhetoric of Time. Lazar's theoretical work is empirically driven and, as a frequent media commentator in North America and Asia, empirically applied

Life and Career
Born in Ottawa, Lazar is the second oldest of five children. As a youth Lazar studied piano and voice. She sang with Opera Lyra and the Central Chamber Choir, and studied at the arts-focused Canterbury School as a vocal music student. Lazar later attended Lisgar Collegiate and turned her musical attentions to DJing. From 1991-1994, she hosted a radio program on CKCU-FM. A voracious reader of philosophical texts from an early age, Lazar obtained her HonBA in philosophy from the University of Toronto where she was the recipient of the Douglas Bond Symons Prize and the Trinity College Provost's Scholarship. Concurrent with her studies, Lazar worked at Heritage Canada, supporting the development of Canada's joint policy position for the 1996 Montreal congress of the IUCN. She also worked with A.T. Kearney on a regulatory policy project for the United States Postal Service and the Postal Rate Commission. With the support of a scholarship from the London Goodenough Association of Canada, Lazar moved to London, UK in 1998 to undertake an MA in Legal and Political Thought from the School of Public Policy, University College London. Returning to Canada in 1999, she worked with the policy team at Justice Canada undertaking the replacement of the Young Offenders Act with the Youth Criminal Justice Act (2002). She has maintained an interest in criminal law policy, and advocates in the public sphere for prisoners' rights. From 2000-2005 Lazar worked toward a PhD in political science at Yale University, where she was a student of Steven Smith. There, she was influenced by Ian Shapiro's empirically informed approach to political theory. From 2005-2008, Lazar was Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. After a year as Canadian Bicentennial Visiting Fellow at Yale University Lazar returned to Canada, accepting a position in the University of Ottawa's then new Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. Tenured and promoted in 2014, she took a leave of absence to help develop the curriculum at a new liberal arts college in Singapore, a joint project between Yale and the National University of Singapore. Lazar helped develop Yale-NUS College's Double Degree Program in Law and Liberal Arts and the program in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, ultimately serving as Associate Dean of Faculty responsible for consolidating the curriculum as a whole. Lazar resigned from Yale-NUS College in 2021 and was promoted to Full Professor at the University of Ottawa. In addition to her scholary work, Lazar contributes regularly to the public intellectual sphere. Her writing and interviews have appeared with the Toronto Star, PBS, Macleans, and Channel News Asia.